In the palace of the Duke of Jean, King Lawrence sits on a golden throne symbolizing his authority, and the Grand Prince and several ministers on whom the king relies stand below.

"Derek, this is a letter from Count Alice of Rose Castle, which records the details of what happened that night in Rose Castle, including the results of the investigation after the incident, you can take a look at it."

The king held in his hand a thick letter, four or five sheets, and the letter paper was densely covered with words.

Soon the squire respectfully took the letter from King Lawrence's hand and delivered it to the eldest prince Derek.

After taking the letter, Prince Derek bowed respectfully to Lawrence, and then began to look through the letter in his hand.

Originally, Derek didn't pay much attention to the previous few letterheads describing the rebellion of Rohr and the orcs attacking Rose Castle, because this matter had already spread throughout the principality, and it was not a secret.

It's just that when Derek saw the results of the investigation of the incident in the latter two pictures and the final direction of the black hand at the end, the eldest prince frowned, and his face turned a little pale.

The eldest prince's performance made several ministers on the side even more curious, what could make the eldest prince lose his temper so much.

Lawrence, who was sitting on the Iron Throne, did not make a sound, but silently watched the reaction of the Great Prince.

When Derek finished reading the letter, he looked up at King Lawrence, and handed the letter in his hand to the ministers who had already craned their necks to check the letter.

Several ministers hurriedly took the letter, one of them held it, and the rest of them all craned their necks to watch together.

Looking at it, the four ministers, who were still full of curiosity, became more and more frightened the more they looked at it, and finally even cold sweat flowed down, and they looked worse than the eldest prince.

When several ministers read the letter and handed it to the attendants on the side, the chamber fell silent for a while.

"Done it all? Do you have any comments? Do you think the credibility of Count Alice's letter and who is behind it? ”

There were four ministers and his eldest son, the four ministers were the prime minister of the court, the chancellor of the exchequer and two commanders of the legion, these four people could be said to be the people that Lawrence trusted and relied on the most, so he showed them the letter presented by Alice.

Instead of answering the king's question, the four ministers glanced at each other and began to consider how they should answer.

"Father, I don't think this matter can be decided so quickly, although all the evidence shows that the mastermind behind it may be the church, but it is hard to guarantee that it will not be the other two principalities who deliberately blame us and want to provoke conflicts between us and the church."

"And the church and the kingdom have coexisted for so many years, why should you choose to be the enemy of my Duchy of Jean in the first place, you must know that the weakest duchy should be the Duchy of Alban."

While the four ministers were still organizing their language, the eldest prince stepped forward first, bowed slightly, and after getting Lawrence's permission, he expressed his opinion.

For the church, everyone is jealous, even afraid that most people are now ostriches, even the eldest prince, he only hopes to inherit the throne from his father in peace, and then work hard to unify the continent, as for the church, he has no intention of making enemies with it now, because the strength of the church is too strong.

With the eldest prince taking the lead, several ministers also stood up and said: "What the eldest prince said, we also agree, Your Majesty, the church has been around for hundreds of years, although there has always been no harmony with the nobles, but they just use cheap food to win people's hearts. ”

"The church can only reap benefits by cooperating with us, otherwise there is no aristocratic constraint, how can the commoners be willing to work hard to cultivate and pay taxes, you must know that the church can get half of the tax revenue from us every year."

"Yes! Your Majesty, isn't the poison of bellflowers coming from the Grand Canyon of the Duchy of Alban, which is also very suspicious. ”

The ministers' words fell, and several people carefully observed Lawrence's reaction, but Lawrence's face never showed joy and anger, and several people didn't know if their words could satisfy the king, but they thought that a few of them echoed the words of the eldest prince, even if the king was not satisfied, it would not be good.

Bang~

Who knows, when several ministers were relaxing in their hearts, there was a loud noise from the golden throne.

I saw that King Lawrence, who was originally expressionless, was already clouded at this moment, as if he was about to explode.

Lawrence's palm slammed against the iron armrest of the throne, and the delicate iron armrest was deeply dented by King Lawrence's slap.

That's a solid iron handrail!

Several ministers, including the eldest prince, trembled, they didn't expect the king to be so angry, this was the first time they had encountered it recently.

I remember that the last time I met was half a year ago, when the second prince was explicitly rejected by Alice, and the old earl wrote a letter to ask King Lawrence to restrain the second prince.

"Have you forgotten how the kingdom is divided? Have you forgotten that the Church's desire to destroy the principality has never been eliminated? ”

"Especially you, Derek, you've let me down so much."

"More than a dozen half-orc warriors, thousands of orcs, even we can't take out such a handiwork, can other principalities take it out?"

Lawrence sat on the golden throne and scolded the eldest prince and the four ministers.

Of course, the reason why the king scolded a few people was not based on the one-sided report on Alice's letter, and the king also had many spies in Winterfell, although few people knew what the battle was like that night, after all, the castle gates had been closed at that time.

However, when the orc corpses that were cleaned up were seen by many people, Alice did not immediately dispose of the corpses of orcs and half-orc warriors, but deliberately showed them to everyone to see.

Especially the representatives of the nobility who attended the banquet, they all saw the orc corpses with their own eyes.

With such a large number of orcs using elven worms, Lawrence could conclude that the church was absolutely inextricably linked.

Moreover, as the king of the Duchy of Jean, Lawrence is the eldest prince of the former kingdom of the Snow Eagle Dynasty, the son of Tred Jean the Great, he knows more about the secrets of the church, but although these secrets cannot be shared with others, they remind him to be wary of the church all the time.

The reason why the Duchy of Jean marched south every year in the autumn was that King Lawrence was eager to unify the kingdom so that it could have the strength to compete with the church.

It's just that the pace of unification has not yet progressed, and the church is likely to start moving.

"Do you know why I asked all counties to build a 10,000-strong orc arena in the main city last year? It's because I think there might be some kind of conspiracy on the part of the church to buy the purple elf worm, so I want to make the purple elf worm valuable, so that people don't want to sell the elf bug to the church anymore."

After venting, Lawrence finally calmed down a little, took a drink from the tray of the attendant next to him and took a few sips before continuing in a slightly calm tone.

"Regardless of whether Count Alice's guess is incorrect, we should pay attention to the problem of the church now, this time fortunately, Rose Castle will exterminate the orcs, if Rose Castle falls, the duchy will definitely fall into turmoil."

Alice concealed in the report that Rohr had rebelled after receiving the spiritual power essence, but only wrote how to unravel the poison of the bellflower, which made the king not 100% sure that it was really planned by the church.

Although it is not 100% certain, but with Lawrence's original knowledge of the church, Lawrence no longer cares that Alice's guess is incorrect.

Because from the disappearance of the old Earl Jones to the siege of thousands of orcs in Rose Castle, it has been revealed that someone wants to start with the Jones family and plunge the Duchy of Jean into turmoil.

"Father, the child knows that he is wrong!"

"Your Majesty, your ministers should die, please calm your anger!"

Seeing that Lawrence's tone eased, several people hurriedly pleaded guilty, and several ministers even knelt on one knee and half on the ground.

"Get up!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Prime Minister Culver, you go and tell the six earls to stop all actions against the Jones family!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The Prime Minister of the Kingdom hurriedly saluted, and after the fright just now, no one dared to say a word more

"Anthony, Barbett, you two go back now to strengthen the legion, I am ready to take the Duchy of Alban in one fell swoop this year, only by taking the Duchy of Alban, can I quickly increase the strength of the Duchy with the help of the rich minerals there."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The two Grand Commanders hurriedly received the order, and their eyes burst into fine light, as the Grand Commander, as long as there is a battle, it means that the time has come for them to get rich.

As the commanders of the legions, although they have noble titles, they do not have real fiefdoms.

Of course, all this is temporary, as long as their merits are enough, when they retire from the position of commander, they will also be rewarded with fiefs, which is also the monarch not only ensures that the strength of the commander will not swell to the point of devouring the lord, but also gives them an expectation and guarantees enough loyalty.

So whenever the war comes, the commanders will not hesitate to fight to kill the enemy, and now the more wealth they accumulate, the more merits they accumulate, the higher their status will be in the future, and the better their life will be.

"Derek, you send someone to bring 30 grams of Mithril to Count Alice."

"Yes, Father!"

Since the potential enemy is the church, Lawrence did not dare to slack off, and originally he also wanted to weaken the strength of the Jones family in order to annex the Jones family in one fell swoop.

But now that he has a more powerful secret enemy, Lawrence has to show his attitude, and even ensure the stability of the Jones family, so as to avoid turmoil in the principality, and then go all out to take the principality of Alban.

……

In the next few days, as King Lawrence's orders were conveyed to all parts of the principality, it once again caused an uproar among the nobles.

They never thought that this was the weakest moment for the Jones family, and everyone was preparing to take a bite of fat from the Jones family, but now this opportunity was directly shattered.

Although it was the king who issued the order, their monarch, several counts, also agreed with the king's order and issued the same order to their vassals.

Even Lenny received a stern order from his father, Count Yoland Cowan, to suspend his activities within the buffer zone.

Of course, Lenny received orders from the old earl and still agreed on the surface, but in private he still went his own way, constantly sending people to repair the camp in the buffer zone.

In addition to Lenny, there is actually another person in the principality who scoffs at the king's orders and scolds them, and that is Kevin's mother, Valerie Bacchus.

Valerie was crying in Count Avery Larkin's study.

"Avery, that's your son, the heir of your blood! Are you just watching him die at the hands of that slut and little white face? ”

When Valerie saw Kevin's body being transported, she went crazy and wanted to start a war against all odds, vowing to pay the Jones family's blood debt.

As for Kevin bringing the four unscrupulous people carrying the elven worms into Rose Castle and holding Caroline hostage, all of them are forgotten.

In Valerie's opinion, no matter what the reason, Kevin's death in Rose Castle is the hand of Gervais, that is, Alice and Gervais need to be responsible for Kevin's death.

"What do you know as a woman? The King has now solemnly declared that he will not do anything unfavorable to the Jones family again! ”

"If we start a war against the Jones family at this time, we will pull the entire Larkin family into the abyss!"

Avery frowned, his face pale.

Although Kevin is the third son, he is not very popular with him, but after all, he is the direct heir of the Larkin family and his son.

Avery had planned for his vassals to take out a few of the Jones family's strongholds on the border and plunder the wealth.

Even if he is stabbed to the king and the lord of the north at that time, he has Kevin's excuse and does not have to worry about causing criticism.

But now that the king had suddenly issued a strict order forbidding any family to attack Jones Collar and had sent 30 grams of Mithril, Avery had to think carefully about the consequences of the attack now.

As an earl, Avery still has the sanity not to be carried away by hatred.

But Valerie didn't have such a mind, Kevin, the youngest son, was the one she loved the most, and at the moment she was blinded by hatred, and wanted to immediately kill the Jones family to pay Kevin.

"King! It's not the king's son who died, it's my Kevin, I want to avenge my son, even the king can't stop it, you are still your coward, you coward. ”

"My poor son, who died in Rose Castle like this, and you, as a father, dare not take revenge!"

Syllable!

Being so sarcastic by Valerie, Avery finally couldn't bear it anymore and slapped her in the face.

Valerie was slapped by Avery, and instantly became a little dazed, covering her face and froze there, a little incredulous.

After a while, Valerie finally reacted, her face contorted and roared loudly at Avery: "You actually beat me, you coward, you don't dare to take revenge for the death of your son, you dare to beat me." ”

"Okay, since you don't want to help my son avenge it, then I'll go to my father!"

With that, Valerie ran out of the study with her face flushed.

"Chamian!"

When Valerie ran out of the study, Avery shouted out the door.

"Your Excellency!"

Soon, a middle-aged man came in outside the door, and this person was the housekeeper of the Larkin family's Coconut Gold Castle.

"You go and inform the people overseas, so that they are ready to sail, I have something to tell them to do!"

"Yes, sir! The villain will do it! ”

Hearing the people overseas, Chamian couldn't help but look pale, this is a force secretly cultivated by the Larkin family, as long as the task handed over to them is a big event.

"Wait!"

Just as Chamien turned to leave, he was stopped by Count Avery.

"I'll write you a letter and give it to the guard later, so that he can follow Madame to the county of Bacchus with the envelope, and then give the envelope to Count Caster Bacchus!"

"Yes, sir!"

The reason why Valerie has such confidence to face Avery and clamore for Alice and Gervais to pay for their blood is because Valerie is also from a famous family, from the family of Count Bacchus, one of the eight families of the Duchy.

While Avery could ignore Valerie's feelings, he couldn't ignore Count Custer's.